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Environmental Product Standards in North–South Trade

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  • Jota Ishikawa
  • Toshihiro Okubo

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One channel through which environment is damaged is consumption. To protect environment, various product standards are introduced all over the world. By using a new economic geography framework, this paperexplores the effects of environmental product standards on environment in a North-South trade model. We examine a situation in which North unilaterally introduces an environmental product standard. Specifically, those products that do not meet the standard are not allowed to be sold in the North market. We find that such a standard may worsen North environment but improve South environment through firm relocation.
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  • Jota Ishikawa & Toshihiro Okubo, 2011. "Environmental Product Standards in North–South Trade," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(3), pages 458-473, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:15:y:2011:i:3:p:458-473
    DOI: j.1467-9361.2011.00620.x
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    1. Cheng, Haitao, 2021. "Trade, Consumption Pollution and Tax," Discussion paper series HIAS-E-106, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University.
    2. Keisaku Higashida & Jota Ishikawa & Nori Tarui, 2025. "Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage With International Transport," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 971-990, November.
    3. Haitao CHENG & Jota ISHIKAWA, 2021. "Carbon Tax and Border Tax Adjustments with Technology and Location Choices," Discussion papers 21030, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    4. Haitao Cheng, 2023. "Consumption pollution and taxes with endogenous firm locations and different market sizes," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 30(6), pages 1601-1632, December.
    5. Jota Ishikawa & Toshihiro Okubo, 2017. "Greenhouse-Gas Emission Controls and Firm Locations in North–South Trade," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 67(4), pages 637-660, August.
    6. Yasuhiro Takarada & Yasushi Kawabata & Akihiko Yanase & Hiroshi Kurata, 2020. "Standards policy and international trade: Multilateralism versus regionalism," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 22(5), pages 1420-1441, September.
    7. Jinhao Liu & Toshiyuki Fujita, 2018. "Trade, cluster and environmental product standard," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 20(3), pages 655-679, July.
    8. Walter, Jason M. & Chang, Yang-Ming, 2020. "Environmental policies and political feasibility: Eco-labels versus emission taxes," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 194-206.
    9. Oyamada, Kazuhiko, 2016. "Simulation analysis of the EU ELV/RoHS directives based on an applied general equilibrium model with Melitz-type trade specification," IDE Discussion Papers 587, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).

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    JEL classification:

    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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